We visited Carrot Island, part of the Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve, on June 14. We timed the visit so we'd be there during low tide, as we wanted to get some shots of marsh life, as well as Leece's primary interest, the plants and especially flowers.
We managed to get some very good photos of the horses, and some of the more common birds. We used our Sigma 150-500mm F5-6.3 APO DG OS HSM, on a Canon 5D MkII for all the horse photos and most of the bird shots. At 500mm, the Sigma telephoto is a very good stand-off lens, especially when used not on the 5D, but on one of the cameras with an APS-C sensor. Macros were Sigma 70mm F2.8 EX DG Macro or 24mm F2.8 EX DG Macro.
The gallery is up on Writingplaces.com's galleries page:
Rachel Carson Estuarine Reserve 06.14.2012
We did OK for a ... dare I say it ... 'a three hour tour ...'.
Actually, we spent four hours. Can you imagine the photo ops if we could go over more frequently? It near boggles the mind.
